A childs safety during the contact with a stranger: The empiric aspect

Abstract

The given article deals with and analyze the main approaches to safety of a child’s personality during the contact with an unfamiliar adult through understanding the phenomenon of trust, its substantial characteristics and also the conditions defining the children’s trust to unknown adults. The analysis of the literary sources shows that the problem of studying trust of preschool and primary school-aged children to unfamiliar adults is little represented in psychological and pedagogical researches. The authors mark that the adults’ idea about the level and content of a child’s trust to familiar and unfamiliar people allows selectively and in proper time takes educational and psycho correctional measures in order to form an adequate level of trust promoting thereby the personal growth and child’s safety. The child’s utter distrust or, vice versa, trust compared with the majority of children of the corresponding age can be an indicator of inadequate adoption of social connections system or extreme unfavorable family relationships. In such cases it is necessary to take urgent psychological and pedagogical measures from the direction of parents, educators, teachers and psychologists. The authors described a new toolset of diagnostics and a program of education and correction of children’s trust to unfamiliar adults. The given author’s diagnostic-learning computer technology (DLCT) “Children’s safety” consists of three modules, in each of them the main goals and peculiarities of psychological and pedagogical activity of experts at every stage are revealed.